RE: Table growth - disk sizing

From: Powell, Mark D <mark.powell_at_eds.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 13:09:52 -0400
Message-ID: <5A14AF34CFF8AD44A44891F7C9FF41050395BA5C@usahm236.amer.corp.eds.com>

Yes, as many TB as will fit in the cabinet that they are trying to sell you. LOL

Mark D Powell --

From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Jared Still Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 1:02 PM
To: MGogala_at_allegientsystems.com
Cc: Ranko Mosic; Christian.Antognini_at_trivadis.com; tomday2_at_gmail.com; Oracle-L
Subject: Re: Table growth - disk sizing

I disagree.

Your storage vendor can certainly be relied on to give you an accurate prediction of your storage requirements for the next 5 years or so.

Jared

On 8/26/05, Gogala, Mladen <MGogala_at_allegientsystems.com> wrote:

What I was trying to tell you is that the goal of your project can be qualified as BS. You are trying to predict the future based on number

of transactions, instead of the historical growth information, like everybody else. That will not work. Allow me to jovially suggest coin

toss, tea leaves, position of the stars or entrails of Oracle sales people

	as the next best methods. 
	The only reliable extrapolation is linear approximation, based
on historical 
	data. Even this gives you only short time reliability.

Everything else is BS.

	-- 
	Mladen Gogala 
	Ext. 121

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Jared Still
Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist

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